Improvement in hand shower-baths



D. STI'RLING.

Hand Shower-Baths.

Patented Oct. 28, 1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

DAVID STIRLING, OF EATON RAPIDS, MIGHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND SHOWER-BATHS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patcnt No. l lld, dated Octohir 28, 1873; application filed August 11. 1873.

To all whom z't may conccrn:

Be it known thatI, DAVID SrInLING, of Eaton Rapids, in the County ot' Eaton and State of Michigan, have invented an Improved Hand Shower-Bath, of which the following is a specification:

This invention has for its object to provide the rose of a hand shower-bathing vessel with an air-pipe, which, extending nearly to the bottom of the Vessel, will, when the vessel is inverted, deliver a supply of air on top of the fluid, and thus establish an atmospheric equilibrium, so that the fluid will flow freely out of the rose with a pressure due to its weight, and, where mineral waters are used, retain the gases. The invention consists in an air-tube attached to `the rose, arranged to operate as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing, which shows my improvement in vertical section attached to a mineralwater bottle, A represents a perforated rose attached to a tapered sleeve, B, adapted to fit closely over the neck of a bottle, C. a is ametallic tube inserted in the sleeve close to the rose and above the neck of the bottle, being curved inside the former and extending in a direct line nearly to the bottom of the bottle.

When a person desires to shower himself or another, he inverts the bottle, when the air fiows up the tube a to the space above the water as fast as the latter flows out, and thus maintains the atmospheric equilibrium otherwise a vacuum would be created above the water, which would cease to flow out of the bottle.

This improvement is more especially designed for invalids requiring` the use of the socalled magnetie or mineral waters., which are more or less charged with gases, which will not separate from the waters if the natural hydro static head can be maintained, and which, for their therapentic effects, it is desirable to hold in combination with the waters.

I do not wish to confine myself, in the employment of the tube a, to a bottle, as other forms of vessels may be employed, and, if preferred, with the rose and tube, as permanent attachments thereto.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The tube a, in combination with the rose A of a hand showering-vessel, substantially as described and shown.

DAVID STIRLING.

VVitnesses D. B. HASLER,

W. F. STIRLING. 

